Design of Electrodes on Gold Test Strips for Enhanced Accuracy in Glucose Measurement

Abstract

This paper reviews the practical process of designing the electrodes on electroless immersion gold-plated test strips for glucose measurement. We have found that great care must be taken on determining the width and length of the working and reference electrodes, to yield the optimum performance on electroless immersion gold-plated glucose test strips for glucose measurement. Preferably, a width of at least 0.6 mm and a length of at least 24 mm are recommended to prevent variance in electrode resistance during mass production of electroless immersion gold-plated glucose test strips, in order to enhance the accuracy of glucose measurement. This paper also recommended that, if two different geometric sizes of test strips are going to be used on the same glucose meter, both test strips must use different lengths and widths on the working and reference electrodes to yield the same electrical resistance and hence similar electrochemical performance.